Check holding and notching device.



J. S. ARCUS.

CHECK HOLOiNG AND NUTCHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION mm 0120.21.1915.

1,239,861 Patented Sept. 11, 1917 JAMES S. ARCUS,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS CHECK HOLDING AND NOTCHING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1917.

Application filed December 27, 1915. Serial N c. 68,792.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I JAMES S. Anous, a citizen of the United tates, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check Holding and the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a. part of this specification.

This invention relates to a novel holder for customers checks such as are used in at soda fountains and -like places to check the price of the cate a series of price marks ranging from a minimum to the maximum capacity of the check, combined with means for cutting awa a portion of the check opposite a desire price umeral to indicate to the cashier the value 0 the check.

Other objects of the invention are to improve and simplify checkholders and markers for the urpose set forth, and the in vention consists in the combination and an rangement of the arts shown in the drawings and described in the specification and is ointed out in the appended claims.

fn the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a check holder embodying my invention with a group or book of checks therein.

Fig. 2 is an of the holder shown the book or group of c ecks Fig. 3' is a transverse section on the line 3-8 of Fi 2.

Fig. 4 IS a partial view of one of the checks showing the manner in which the price numerals are indicated.

As shown in the drawings 10 designates as a whole desi ates as a whole a chec such for instance as 18 ads ted to restaurant or lunch counter uses; sai checks having tworows 12 of rice indicating numerals, which price indicating numerals are only a portion of group or book of enlarged longitudinal section my novel check holder and 11 bodies of the checks. ermanently bound to; lnding means in the grinted on the main aid checks may be gether by suitable usual manner extending of the book of checks.

10 is herein shown and prefof spring metal,it being made of general U-shape and comprising an u per jaw 15 and a lower jaw 16 joined b tlih rounded ortion 17. The terminals 0 the upper and ower jaws are turned inwardly and are serrated to constitute the check engaging members 18, 18 of the jaws. The device thus far describe constitutes a,spring clamp between the enof the checks are clamped, being held engaged with the book of checks by its own resiliency.

The upper jaw 15 of the holder is vided with tegral part thereof as more clearly indicated in Fig. 1. The said ton e is provided with a; pointed end 20, pre erably having sharpened converging edges and said sharpened edges codperate with the edges 21 of the V-shaped notch in the upper jaw from which the tongue is cut to constitute a shearing device by which the checks are cut to provide price indicating notches as hereinafter described. The shearing action is given to the tongue 19 by curving the terminal portion 20 relatively to the general plane of the upper jaw, as best indicated in Fig. 2, so that the extreme point of the tongue is first brought into coiiperative relation with the coacting edges of the V-shaped notch 21,the cutting edges of the rear portion of the ton e, when the tongue is pressed downward y into the space of the upper jaw from which it was out, being brought successively into action from the extreme point to the rear portions of said inclined edges. By reason of this construction the coacting action of the pointed tongue and notch is that of a shear as distinguished from that of a punch. The said tongue is provided just in rear of its point with a age stop 22, shown in Fi 2 as formed y bending a portion of t e material of'the tongue downwardly.

The use of the device is illustrated in Figs.

through the stubs 1 and 2. When a check of a certain denomination is to be given to a customer, the waiter tears the check from its stub alon the usual perforated or weakened line 2 and mserts the detached check between the upper jaw and the shearing tongue 19, with the price numeral, re resenting the charge to be made, in line wit or op osite to sai pointed shearing tongue. T e tongue is there'- after pressed downwardly and the shearing action of the pointed tongue in cooperation with the V-shaped notch of the upper aw serves to cut awa a portion of the check to produce the note desi ated by 25 in 4 and to thus indicate t e value of the chec The said gage stop 22 limits the extent of the insertion of the check into'the shearing device and said stop is so related to the shearing point of the tongue produced by the shearing action of the tongue does not extend into that p art of the area bearing the price numera referably and in order to afford an ample bearing for the thumb ag inst the shearing tongue 19, said shearing ngue is formed in rear of the gage stop 22 with a widened portion 26 constitutin a thumb piece or button, as most clearly indicated in Figs. 1 and 3.

In some uses of the device it is objectionable to have the cut pieces of the checks fall about, and in such uses it may be desirable to provide a receptacle to receive the cut out pieces so as to prevent them falling in objectionable laces. This may be efiected by providing t e upper and lower jaws 15, 16, respectively, with end pieces 27, 28, respectively, one of which is adapted to overlap the other in the manner indicated in Figs. 1 and 3. The said end pieces are made integral arts of the jaws and are formed therefrom in such a manner as not to interfere with the spring-action of the jaws, as will be more clearly apparent from an inspection of Fig. 2. When the holder is thus arranged to constitute a rece tacle, the triangular pieces cut from the tie ets to produce the notches 25 fall thereinto and said receptacle will be made suiiiciently large to receive all of the cut out pieces from one book of tickets; the out out pieces or fra ents being emptied from'the receptacle w en one book of tickets is changed for another.

It will be understood that the structural details herein described are ca able of some variation within the spirit an scope of the claims hereto attache and that the invention is not limited to the structure shown except as the same is hereafter made the subject of specific claims.

I claim as my invention 1. A check holding and notching device comprisin a resilient clamp adapted to receive and old the stub of a book of checks,

and inclosed to provide a receptacle for that the notch punchings, and a shearin device carried by the clamp and receptac e in rear of the clamping edges of the device and in position to discharge punchings into said receptacle.

2. A check holding and notching device comprising-a one piece resilient clamp and punchings receptac 0 adapted to engage over one end of a book of checks and a shearing member associated with one member of said clam and movable toward a shearing edge of said member.

. 3. A check holding and notching device comprising a one piece res'lient clamp, and punchings receptacle adapted to engage over one end of a book of checks; a shearing member integral with said clamp and receptacle, and a gage stop to limit t e insertion of a check beneath said shearing member.

4. A check holding and notching device comprising a clamp provided in rear of its clamping edges with a shearing edge, said clamp adapted to eng at its clampin edges over one end of a ook of checks an a tongue'integral said clamp and shearing edge a said shearin ed e.

5. A. chec hiding and notching device comprising a U-shaped clamp having in rear of its clampin edges a shearing edge, clamp adapte to 'en edges over one end 0 rovided with a pointed opted to cooperate with ge at its clam ing a book of chec a with and struck up from.

said

tongue integral with and struck up fromsaid clamp and provided with a pointed shearing edge adapted to coiiperate with said shearing edge, said tongue bein provided in rear of its pointed end with an ntegral gage stop to limit the insertion of the check between the tongue and said clamp.

6. A check holding and notching device comprising a .one piece U-shaped resilient holder, the free edges of which are turned in and serrated to engage one end of a book of checks, one of the members of said holder bein cut away to provide a tongue which is pointed at its free end and is provided with shearing edges, the body being provided with complemental shearing edges, and said ton e being provided wit 9. age stop to limit the insertion of a check etween the tongue and said holder.

7. A check holding and notching device comprising a resilient clam adapted to engage over one end of a boo of checks and a tongue provided with a pointed shearin edge adapted to enga e a complementa shearing edge on the older, the ointed shearing edge of the tongue being 1 osed at a downwardl oblique angle to the s earing edge of the older.

8. A checkfholding device comprising a holder provided with clampin members to engage a book, of checks, one o the members being provided an opening and at the sides of saidqopenin with shearing edges, my inventionIaflix my signature inthe resv and provided also wlth a cutting tongue to ence of two witnesses, this 13th day 0 Decooperate with said edges and the clamping cember A. D. 1915. members being shaped to provide a recep- JAMES S. ARCUS.

, tacle to receive the punchings cut away from Witnesses:

the checks. W. L. HALL, In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as R. WILLNER. 

